Identity and Relationships
By Ashlee Heap
What is a healthy relationship?
A healthy relationship must have many different components like trust. Trust is very important in any relationship because you must be able to trust them with other people they might be with or something you say or do and they won’t tell any other people. I think honesty is a key quality in a healthy relationship because you should be able to tell them your opinions and what you are feeling instead of lying about it. Being respectful of them is also important whether you are respecting their opinions or feelings or their property. There are many more qualities I could write about like loyalty, dedication or being faithful because they are also very important in a healthy relationship. All this qualities are important in all types of relationships whether they are in friendship, sexual relationship or just between family. If these qualities were not present in any type of relationship, it would not be a healthy relationship and it wouldn’t work the best it could.
Your Identity
Catholic Church Teachings on Sexual Intimacy
The Catholic Church teaches that sexual intercourse is only for married couples.
Why do they teach this?
Catholic Church Teachings on Contraceptives
Artificial Contraception divides these functions and therefore makes sexual intercourse incomplete.
Natural methods result in the responsibility being shared between both parties as they are required to abstain from sexual intercourse when they are fertile.
They only believe of Abstinence (not having sexual intercourse) and Fertility Awareness (methods that attempt to pinpoint the fertile period so that sexual intercourse during these periods can be avoided.)
Why do they teach this?
Informed Conscience
It helps you to decide what the right or wrong decision is to act on when you are faced with a tough decision and not sure what to do by weighing up all the consequences of either decision.